Six tips for home hunters in 2016

Architect and recent first-time buyer David Sheridan offers his hard-won tips for home hunters in 2016.

After a year of sifting through paperwork, becoming “besties” with estate agents and solicitors, drafting construction drawings, agonising over paint colours that to the naked eye are identical, the house which we went ‘Sale Agreed’ on this time last year is finally liveable.

We won’t be moving in any time soon though because we’re not married, and ‘living in sin’ may see a vengeful God send a plague of locusts to the house to wreak havoc on the new blinds. Especially considering how long it took us to settle on those particular blinds!